Magistrate’s Court.
Mr E. J. Darrell, J.P., Presiding. William Yates, a labourer who has been working in the neighbourhood of Rangiriri, was charged witli the theft of a, watch and certain articles of underclothing from a tent shored by accused and liis mate, a man named Gainsford. Pleading guilty to the charge, the prisoner was sentenced to two months imprisonment, without the option of a fine. Yales, who also pleaded guilty to having stolen a suit of clothes from the mate lie was working with at Shannon, near Palmerston North, was sentenced to a month’s imprison-
ment. In sentencing . s prisoner, his Worship remarked that thefts of tiie kind were sc. mean and contemptible that they must be repressed with a stern hand. Misdemeanours of this nature could not and would not be tolerated. The prisoner was taken to the Mon ,t Eden prison by Constable Ingram on Wednesday.
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Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 6, 13 March 1914, Page 3
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149Magistrate’s Court. Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 6, 13 March 1914, Page 3
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